Client Press Releases

Attorney Steven Mitchell Sack, “The Employee’s Lawyer,” says the New York State fast-food wage board should recommend raising the minimum wage of fast-food workers to $15 an hour so that they can bring home a livable salary.

It has been reported that at an upcoming meeting on July 22, the state’s fast-food wage...

UNIONDALE, NEW YORK — Wayne Edwards, Partner, Sahn Ward Coschignano, PLLC, recently successfully represented Eben-Ezer Haitian Baptist Church of Westbury before the Town of North Hempstead’s Zoning Board of Appeals. The church is seeking to build a new structure at its existing location, 859 Prospect Avenue in Westbury, allowing it...

UNIONDALE, NEW YORK — Sahn Ward Coschignano, PLLC has announced that Joseph R. Bjarnson, an Associate with the firm, along with the firm’s co-counsel, was named 2015 Trial Lawyer of the Year by the Public Justice Foundation for his work as pro bono counsel in David, et al. v. Signal International, LLC, et al., No. 08-cv-...

MINEOLA, NEW YORK — Bellavia Blatt & Crossett, P.C. (“Bellavia Blatt”), a law firm that advocates for and represents franchised or licensed automobile dealerships, has announced the recent distribution of funds representing 72% of the approved proofs of claims filed on behalf of over 160 former Saab dealers in the Saab Cars North...

Attorney Steven Mitchell Sack, “The Employee’s Lawyer,” says fast food workers in New York State do not make enough money and should be able to earn at least $15 an hour. This, he says, will mean not only increased employee morale but employee retention.

Attorney Steven Mitchell Sack, “The Employee’s Lawyer,” says a new workplace regulation proposed by President Barack Obama to automatically qualify workers for overtime pay would mean those who work more than 40 hours a week will be fairly compensated.

UNIONDALE, NEW YORK — Sahn Ward Coschignano, PLLC is pleased to announce that a temporary restraining order was issued yesterday against the Village of Muttontown, which prohibits the Village from enforcing a condemnation order that it issued against a family-run kennel that has been in business for nearly a century.

Melville, NY — On Memorial Day, May 25, The Murph Challenge 2015 will take place at CrossFit Bastion, located at 155 East 2nd Street in Huntington Station, starting at 10 a.m. The event is being sponsored by...

HEMPSTEAD, NEW YORK — Frederick K. Brewington of The Law Offices of Frederick K. Brewington has announced that the United States District Court, Eastern District of New York in Central Islip, recently denied a summary judgment in favor of the plaintiff, David Coles, in a racial discrimination and harassment case against the...

HEMPSTEAD, NEW YORK — The Law Offices of Frederick K. Brewington has announced The United States District Court, Eastern District of New York in Brooklyn recently denied a summary judgment, allowing a lawsuit filed on behalf of Michael Smith to proceed to trial against Nassau County...

Mayor Allan M. Dorman, Village of Islandia, has announced that the New York State Supreme Court has allowed a lawsuit filed by the village against Suffolk County in a bid to recoup lost ticket revenue since the county established the Traffic Violations Bureau (TVB) two years ago to proceed.

UNIONDALE, NY — Sahn Ward Coschignano & Baker, PLLC has announced that the New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department, ruled in favor of the Firm’s defendant client, Rockaway Hunting Club, against the plaintiffs, Alex Kostovetsky and Marietta Chernerko, denying their appeal of the lower court’s...

Uniondale, NY – Sahn Ward Coschignano & Baker, PLLC has announced the Third Judicial Department ruled in favor of its client, New York Safety Track, LLC. The decision reverses a summary determination by an upstate trial court which held that Safety Track's use of a private motorcycle track on its property was substantially...

Troy Rosasco, Partner, Turley, Redmond, Rosasco & Rosasco, LLP, says the new report about workers’ compensation shows how employees who are injured on the job and file for these benefits are unable to receive them because the states continue to cut benefits at the expense of the taxpayers, who must now take on this...

Over 100 Dealerships Join Suit against Online Car Buying Site for Deceptive Business Practices

MINEOLA, NEW YORK — Bellavia Blatt & Crossett, PC, a leading automobile dealer law firm, announced today that it has filed a mass action lawsuit in Federal Court for the Southern District of New York against TrueCar...

HEMPSTEAD, NEW YORK — Frederick K. Brewington of The Law Offices of Frederick K. Brewington has announced that his client, Nassau County Police Officer Dolores Sharpe, a female African-American, has been found not guilty of charges of harassment and resisting arrest. A Hempstead District Court jury of five...

UNIONDALE, NY — Sahn Ward Coschignano & Baker, PLLC has announced that Joseph R. Bjarnson, an Associate with the Firm, was part of the legal team that obtained a federal jury verdict of more than $14 million in damages for five Indian national workers against Signal International, a marine and fabrication...